USC’s Thornton School of Music launched its 125th birthday party this week. KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez says the institution has adapted and thrived in a changing music world. Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: Los ...

The University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music has been hosting a year-long celebration of Quincy Jones’ life and legacy, and in the wake of the great ...

Acclaimed Artists Saxophonist/Composer Bob Mintzer and Drummer Peter Erskine also Named to Jazz Faculty. USC Thornton introduces New Bachelor of Arts in Vocal Jazz. Legendary jazz pianist Alan Pasqua ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today marks the announcement of 320 ExperiMENTAL, a mental health awareness event and benefit concert co-produced by USC students in a class of Warped Tour founder Kevin ...

Lavery also chose the piece to celebrate the Thornton School of Music’s new Dean, Jason King, who was in attendance and publicly recognized Friday evening. The concert itself began on a grand note, ...

I'd have liked nothing better than to list the personnel on Studio Jazz Band 2000, but the album's graphics (small red type on black background) are so poorly conceived that doing so would have ...

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Today's Beautiful Music features some talented young singers. The USC Thornton Chamber Singers perform BATTER MY HEART by Richard Nance. The choral work is based a poem by English poet John Donne ...

The latest USC research on the impact of music education shows that for adolescents, the benefits appear to extend beyond a surge in neural connections in their brains. It actually boosts their ...

Thornton Edge, USC’s ensemble for new music, has been a home for contemporary classical music for nearly five decades. Robert Wojciak founded the ensemble in 1976, though the group shifted under the ...